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Michael Schmidt's work has always focused on his hometown of Berlin and the book format has always been a fundamental element of his work. His book Waffenruhe is a renowned and highly collectible book of the late 20th century. One of his most important bodies of work about Berlin, Berlin nach 1945, has never been published as a whole. It is particularly significant at this time, given the extreme urban and developmental changes Berlin has undergone within recent years. This series documents a big city which, as recently as 1980, was still very much marred by World War II. Focusing on the vacant sites, fallow land, and provisional architectonical arrangements - rigid city planning within this divided city - Schmidt has elaborated an impressive visual record of a city in a state of flux.

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Michael Schmidt was born in 1945 in Berlin, where he still lives and works. He started working with photography while he worked as a policeman from 1963 - 1973. In 1969 he began teaching photography at the adult education centers in Berlin-Kreuzberg and - Neukolln. In 1976 he founded and has since been the head of the Werkstatt fur Fotografie at Volkshochschule Kreuzberg. Schmidt has received various prizes and funding for his photographic work which has been shown worldwide in group and solo exhibitions.

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